Lee appointed director of education center

Posted: Sunday, March 06, 2005

University of Georgia economics professor Dwight R. Lee has been appointed co-director of the UGA Center for Economic Education. Lee will work closely with center co-director Ron VanSickle, a professor of social studies education at UGA, to strengthen delivery of economic education opportunities for grade school teachers in Georgia.

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Lee joined the faculty of the Terry College of Business in 1985 as director of the Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise and holder of the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise. He has spent time as a visiting scholar at the Center for Study of American Business at Washington University (1988-89) and at the Liberty Fund in Indianapolis (1999).

The center sponsors pre-service and in-service workshops and courses for educators and publishes instructional materials for use in Georgia classrooms. It is affiliated with the Georgia Council on Economic Education and the National Council on Economic Education in New York. Terry College Dean George Benson is a member of the board of trustees of the Georgia Council on Economic Education.